Fitxa persona

Mikel Labiano took his doctor's degree in Classical Philology in the Faculty of Philology (Universidad de Salamanca)  in 1999, with his thesis on interjections in Aristophanic Comedy, under the supervision of Dr. Antonio López Eire. After several positions at the Universities of La Rioja and Complutense de Madrid, in 2003 he got the post of professor at the Universitat de València, until the present.

This thesis was published as a book the following year: Estudio de las interjecciones en las comedias de Aristófanes. Amsterdam: Hakkert, 2000. His observations and data are usually used, for example, in the series of Aristophanic commentaries that S. Douglas Olson published at Oxford University Press in recent years. (Acharnians, 2002; Thesmophoriazusae, 2004; Wasps, 2016). The study of ancient Greek interjections is part of a broader line of research that concerns the Attic conversational language, to the extent that we can approach it through texts, fundamentally dramatic.

Along with this line of research in Aristophanic Comedy, particularly in everything related to the conversational language of Ancient Greek, he has also studied the Euripidean tragedy, of which he has published some translations in Editorial Cátedra and Alianza Editorial (Eurípides. Tragedias II. Madrid: Cátedra, 1999; Eurípides. Tragedias III. Madrid: Cátedra, 2000; Eurípides. El Cíclope. Ión. Reso. Madrid: Alianza Editorial, 2010), in addition to some linguistic and philological studies. He has also had the opportunity to study linguistic features of the Corpus Hippocraticum, in terms of history of language, in orden to try to contribute to the long list of studies that deal with the complex formation of this rich and varied corpus. These studies have also led him to participate in recent years in two research projects on forgeries, literary pseudepigraphs and problems of authorship, with special attention to the letters and pseudepigraphic writings in the Hippocraticum Collection.

He is currently a member of GRATUV (Grup de Recerca i Acció Teatral de la Universitat de València), where he is engaged with studies about the modes of linguistic expression of political violence in Ancient Greek Comedy, mainly in Aristophanic Comedy, according to the models of conversational analysis and verbal (im)politeness successfully applied to modern Indo-European languages and, also, to ancient Greek in recent years.